Ebook: Compromise Cake: Lessons Learned from My Mother's Recipe Box

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; 1. Marguerite's Desire; Sunny Silver/Lemon Chiffon Pie; 2. Compromise Cake; Compromise Cake; 3. Sugar Cookies; Sugar Cookies; 4. Dark Cake; Dark Cake; 5. Holiday Scramble; Oven-Barbecued Spareribs; Scramble; 6. Faith in a Fruitcake; Grandma's Holiday Fruitcake; My Mother's Variation Holiday Fruitcake; My Completely Different California Fruitcake; 7. A Community of Cooks; Mrs. Brandt and Mrs. Parker's Crum Cake; Erma's Red Devil's Food Cake; 8. My Man Cookies; My Man Cookies; 9. Invasion of the Industrial Eats; Cheesecake Pie.;After her mother's death in 2007, Nancy Spiller discovered her mother's teaching credential buried in a recipe box. Her mother had taught for only one year before marrying and having four children. Spiller realized that she had probably been her mother's best and only student in the kitchen.Compromise Cake explores Spiller's life in the suburbs in Northern California in the 1960's, learning to cook by her mother's side, as remembered through the recipe box. It touches on lineage and industrial changes; it is a meditation on men, women, marriage and the concept of compromise. What emerges is a p.